Posted on 04/18/2024 2:05:36 PM PDT by Twotone
A Florida man has revealed how he and his wife were stung with a $143,000 bill after a three-week vacation to Europe last year.
Rene Remund, 71, lives with his wife Lynda, 65, in Dunedin, Florida, but is originally from Switzerland.
In September, the couple returned to the town in which he grew up and enjoyed 'magical' moments with family and friends.
Many of those moments were captured in photographs, which were sent back to the U.S. using cellular data.
But it appeared to come at a cost. The couple returned home to shocking cell phone charges from their carrier, T-Mobile, amounting to $143,442.74.
'I'm looking at it and I say, 'Excuse me, $143,000, are you guys crazy?'' he told local news outlet Scripps News Tampa.
Over the course of the three-week trip, he and his wife used around 9.5 gigabytes of data but they were charged roaming fees, which averaged more than $6,000 a day.
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You have to have noticed all the iFag types holding and staring at the damn things constantly.
I really love the videos of them crashing and burning staring a their licks and looks, or whatever it is they stare at.
Has anyone ever considered VIBER I have relations over seas and use it all the time text, pictures and voice no charge. And it works well.
Has anyone ever considered VIBER I have relations over seas and use it all the time text, pictures and voice no charge. And it works well.
Have you ever tried Whats App ?
Never heard of it, but it looks interesting.
The encryption part is really cool.
Is it free, or is there a monthly fee?
I just downloaded it and played with it a little. Looks very cool. The person you are calling has to have Viber installed too, but from what I read it is very secure. That alone is reason enough to use it with people you communicate with regularly.
Yes the person you communicate with has to have VIBER as well I use it all the time and more often it works better than regular e-mail for pictures, voice and text and the best it is free been using it for several years and they continously up date it as well. I have it on my computer as well, what is nice. Take care...
Yes the person you communicate with has to have VIBER as well I use it all the time and more often it works better than regular e-mail for pictures, voice and text and the best it is free been using it for several years and they continously up date it as well. I have it on my computer as well, what is nice. Take care...
Buy the roaming program for $20/month.
Read later.
If you are ever on a cruise ship don’t use your phone. The data cost is ridiculous.
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